"absent-minded professor" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1864, The American Educational Monthly, volume 1, page 23",
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          "ref": "1890, Charles Stuart Pratt, “Adolf Oberlauder, Humorist”, in The Cosmopolitan, volume 9, page 612",
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          "ref": "1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love, page 38",
          "text": "Snapshot: Jimmy, a third-grader, is an absent-minded professor before his time. He forgets everything, from his lunch box in the morning, to his raincoat",
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          "ref": "2003, Judith Sherven with James Sniechowski, Be Loved for Who You Really Are, page 172",
          "text": "Judith: I call Jim \"The Ditz\" when he is the absent-minded professor.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Amy Demorest, Psychology's grand theorists: how personal experiences shaped professional ideas, page 174",
          "text": "... a dreamy youth whose siblings teased him for being an absent-minded professor.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mark I. West, The Japanification of children's popular culture: from godzilla to miyazaki, page 59",
          "text": "Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mitchell Graham, Dead Docket, page 274",
          "text": "“My brother, the absent-minded professor,” she said, motioning to me with her thumb. “Don't you know why that date looks familiar, silly?",
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        "(by extension) A person who tends to be oblivious to reality."
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          "word": "roztargniony profesor"
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        },
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          "text": "Judith: I call Jim \"The Ditz\" when he is the absent-minded professor.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009, Mark I. West, The Japanification of children's popular culture: from godzilla to miyazaki, page 59",
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      "word": "verstrooide professor"
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